Christine Muir
The Speaker is Assistant Professor in Second Language Acquisition, Faculty of Arts, at the University of Nottingham in 2016. Prior to this, she worked as an English language teacher in a range of international contexts, including Russia, Finland, the Czech Republic, and Scotland. Her professional experience includes teaching diverse learner groups, English for Specific Purposes (notably Business English and exam preparation), course and materials development, and collaboration with national language schools on language testing materials.
Before moving into language education, she trained and worked as a classical cellist. She holds degrees and professional qualifications in music and performance from the University of Southampton and the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, and has experience teaching both cello and music theory.
At undergraduate level, she teaches modules on the psychology of bilingualism and language learning, and on teaching English as a foreign language, with a focus on second language acquisition theory and its pedagogical applications. At Master’s level, she teaches modules in speaking and listening, vocabulary teaching and learning, and syllabus design and methodology, and supervises MA dissertations across campus-based and distance-learning programmes.
She currently supervises PhD students researching topics such as teacher and student motivation, narrative identity, teacher resilience, mindsets, learner agency, and self-regulated learning.